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    like a solid to a shadow

    By Janice Lobo Sapiago

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    *Author is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, and was a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets.
    *Author was named as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Women to Watch in 2017 by KQED Arts.
    *Author has been profiled in Content Magazine, Mercury News, SF Gate, and Metro Silicon Valley
    *Author is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Poetry Fellow
    *Author started Santa Clara County's first Youth Poet Laureate Program in 2020 as a chapter with Urban Word New York City as part of the National Youth Poet Laureate Initiative.
    *Author co-founded Sunday Jump, a long-running open mic space in Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown.
    *Author co-hosts the podcast Pinaystrology, which discusses BIPOC pop culture, poems, and the planets.
    *Author is currently the Poetry Editor at Angel City Review.
    *Author is Assistant Professor of English at Skyline College where she directs the Honors Transfer Program and teaches in the CIPHER (Hip Hop) Learning Community
    *Author holds an MFA in Writing from CalArts and a BA in Ethnic Studies with Honors and a minor in Urban Studies & Planning from the University of California, San Diego.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateMay 31, 2022
    ISBN9781643621647
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      like a solid to a shadow

      janice lobo sapigao

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      by the author

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      Copyright © 2022 by Janice Lobo Sapigao

      Originally published by Timeless, Infinite Life in 2017

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      Print ISBN: 978-164362-122-7

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-64362-164-7

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      maysa: for those who are quiet

      with words they don’t like

      I know you have seen things that you wish you hadn’t. You have done things you wish you could take back. And you wonder why you were thrown into the thick of it all—why you had to suffer the way you did. And as you are sitting there alone and hurting, I wish I could put a pen in your hand and gently remind you how the world has given you poetry and now you must give it back.

      Poetry by Lang Leav

      "If you are reading this book, there is a high probability that your heart is broken.

      It may have been caused by a death, either recent or long ago."

      The Grief Recovery Handbook,

      John W. James and Russell Friedman

      Translator’s Note

      The Background

      "cardiology cannot yet account

      entirely for the broken heart"

      - Carl Phillips

      when i was six years old, my father passed away from a heart attack. i remember mostly the sad things—how my brother and i kept my father up the night before his heart attack, how we asked questions about former president bill clinton, the way the kids in the apartment complex gawked at the fire truck and the ambulance that appeared as a result of my mother’s 9-1-1 call the next morning, the trashed family bedroom the medics left, the way my father seizured in his hospital bed and how the nurse ushered us out, when my

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